Complementing Microsoft

If you need advice on how to take your Microsoft partnership to the next level, you are not alone. Many partners in the fight to Microsofts partners in a series of resources and foster the relationship between the need to make those all important business referral service.

into partnerpoint.com, a new, independent portal, is committed to helping Microsoft partners get the most out of the relationship with Microsoft . Registration-based society has provided a base for its current 1,700 members of a wide range of services, including a display of the ISV, to recruit the support and the answer to the question related to what Microsoft through chat, e-mail and telephone.

partnerpoint creativity is the founder and Chairman Brian ocheltree, they think The need for a portal site, complementary to Microsofts plans. "Our goal is to become a trusted adviser, the largest online Microsofts partner community," he said. With his background in Web applications and knowledge of the internal operations of Microsofts partner community, he might be in a position to fulfill his vision.

before the start partnerpoint, ocheltree is president and CEO of e.magination, Gold Certified consulting firm and solutions provider in Baltimore. As leaders, the companys Microsoft Partner of the initiative, he said that a good two years, to really understand what INS and outs of Microsoft provided.

ocheltree consider sharing the knowledge he gained during that time, through advisory business, but said that he would prefer to share the scale Larger, the portal format allows.

"Our goal is to become a trusted adviser, the largest online Microsoft partner community." Brian ocheltree, co-founder And the President, partnerpoint At the same time, the site of the formal end of their probationary period in August, ocheltree said that this is still a work in progress, and constantly improve on the basis of Member feedback. The company is committed to creating lead generation services, for example, it has just launched a profile tool that allows members include information not normally available through Microsofts partner directory of resources, such as the status of minority business contracts And the status of the former five customers. "We give us] the opportunity to link their record, in the Microsoft Resource Directory, it added, it is not replaced it," he explains. The site also provides a local partner list and advocacy skills, Their technical staff, so that other people do » Including Microsoft, the » They can be found. ocheltree said that this is helping to build a relationship with Microsoft, and so on.

ocheltree, is quick and pointed out that no partnerpoint services, in competition with Microsoft intends to provide what, this is what he called the worlds mostºÃµÄ. "No one is doing what its doing so Microsoft partners," He said.

Partnerpoint features Group discounts: volume discounts for the common suppliers.

ISV display of cooperation: on-line directory of more than 250 ISV Microsofts products.

msresources: Contents hire skilled personnel.

mssurvey: Hosted investigative tools for members to create and deploy custom investigation.

partner2partner: services for partners and supply requirements, support 1.

partnerprofile: online directory of the Microsoft Partner Overview.

partners support: Microsofts answer to any problem.

recruitment support: employment for the partners after the open contracts.

Microsoft useful resources: List of links to Microsofts resources, as partners.

, and now, all the services are free partnerpoint members. ocheltree have tried to implement a monthly membership fee, in August, but quickly recovered it.

Although he openly admitted that there are currently no set pattern of revenue for the site, he said that the company and its 15 employees , Is not good enough funds, he can concentrate on his long-term perspective, this is encouraging, from a former client: American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

"This thing really impressed me about [the United States AARP] is the relationship they have created with their members , "He said. "This is amazing. Its members can not see them as a trusted adviser, which is why I think such a strong sense of their lobbying arm.

"If we can create such a relationship, and the 5,000 or 10,000 active partners, I believe this will have tremendous value, not only Microsoft, but also to third parties [and] our members," he added Said. "This is what we are on the banks, through their hard work that we are doing now, we [will] have this value, in the end of the day."

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